"We're depending on God; he's everything we need. What's more, our hearts brim with joy since we've taken for our own his holy name. Love us, God, with all you've got— that's what we're depending on." -Psalm 33:20 (The Message)

Friday, August 16, 2013

Prayers for TODAY

I know this post is long and it's not something I post about in depth very frequently, but I ask humbly for my friends to take several minutes out of your 24 hour day and read this post. Please join me in this prayer TODAY. Thank you in advance for standing in the gap with me. Please feel free to link this, and/or comment with your own prayers or with any word the Lord has put on your heart in response. To God be the Glory.

Feeling heavy today. Not heavy as in weight. Not heavy as in a depressed mood. Heavy as in I believe the Lord is up to something GOOD in the Haitian adoption world but is being restricted by the powers of this world. I believe this because I see so much opposition growing and trying to stand in His way.

I humbly ask that any who desire to, to join me in praying for God's Will to have its full power and authority in the adoptions of Haiti TODAY. That any schemes of Satan to cause division, corruption, and ultimately endings to adoptions of these beautiful Haitian children be thwarted, stopped, demolished, and conquered. That those of us who have answered a call to adopt through Haiti would be strengthened in our journeys and even more determined to see His call to us through to completion. That our trust in His Plan and our faith in His Ability to see it finalized would never be shaken, but only strengthened with each day we wait for our little ones to come home.

And that TODAY an impact so BIG would be seen across Haiti in the realm of adoptions that no one would be able to deny the presence of the Almighty God. That He would be gloried and honored and loved because of what He can do for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. That children who are already matched to their families would be moved one step closer to their homes TODAY. That those waiting simply to be matched would be given hope through the faces of others going before them.

That directors, lawyers, or representatives of these children and their families would have direct access to the papers, people, or answers they need to work on our behalf TODAY and move us forward. That nothing--not weather, not money, not rallies, not roadblocks, not sickness, not time, not lack of gasoline, not traffic, not lies, not pride, not past rules or current rules or future potential rules, not lack of ink, not broken machines, not fraud, not government issues, not agency issues, not orphanage issues, not human issues, not ANYTHING--would be used by Satan to block the path of forward movement in each and every adoption.

That these precious waiting children would be filled with the unexplainable Spirit of the Living God in their hearts TODAY so that they know in the core of their being they are loved, being fought for, and are not forgotten. That every Mama and Daddy heart would be comforted TODAY with a peace that transcends our own understanding that God is fully at work for us where we can not be.

And that TODAY, we would believe that our prayers--our conversations with the Most High--are cherished, treasured, desired, heard, and will be answered by a God who loves us more dearly than any other ever can. May all who believe in Christ see Him at work TODAY and be inspired by His Holiness and Faithfulness towards GOOD. May all who do not believe yet be given eyes that are opened and a heart that is changed because of the work God will do today as Satan is bound and God's Spirit is given full reign in all of the adoptions in Haiti.

Thank you, friends, for praying and standing in the gap with me for something so dear to our family. We have had a daughter for 2 years among those children in the orphanages across Haiti who needs her God to have full access TODAY on earth as it is in Heaven with no hindrances, no barriers, and no limitations. We have a daughter who needs her God to have full reign to work His GOOD for her today. Will you each please pray for Him to have all these things and more TODAY?

Thank You, God, for loving Nora so. Thank You for loving me so. Thank You for loving each and every child and family represented on papers in Haiti trying desperately to be united. Thank You for always being at work for the good of those You love. Have full reign TODAY, Sweet Jesus, have Your Full Reign in the adoption process in Haiti. Have Your Full Reign in me. Amen.

Please, read these Holy Words of Romans 8 and pray them over this situation during your prayer time...

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

'For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.'

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

***Update/Answer to Prayer!!!!!! September 4, 2013***

Adoption Prayer Update:
On August 16th I felt an undeniable urge to pray of the world of
adoptions in Haiti and asked you all to join in with me in that prayer.
Many of you did...thank you! Although I hadn't heard of any big answer
to prayer that day or any direction really as to why God put that on my
heart, I simply chalked it up to a reason God had that I just wouldn't
understand or know. Just because I
didn't know what was happening, didn't mean He wasn't hearing my prayers
or that they were not needed that day...I just didn't know why. Low
and behold, just yesterday a huge miracle was announced that had
happened over the course of the last few weeks in the Haiti adoption
world! It was confirmed that a change in the law of requirements to
adopt through Haiti has finally been approved and will begin to be
implemented in the next several months. This law has been on the table
in Haiti's government to be approved for over a decade and has
consistently been denied....until this past week. Praise the Lord! The
old laws made the requirements to adopt through Haiti one person in the
married couple had to be 35 years old, you had to be married 10 years
at least, and you were not allowed to have any biological children
(singles were allowed to adopt as well, but I'm mainly talking about
married couple rules here). Obviously, we didn't meet these
requirements but we are still adopting through Haiti. To bypass these
requirements, we (and MANY, MANY others) had to get a signature from the
President of Haiti (called dispensation) waiving us through. With the
new law, there will be no dispensations at all and the new requirements
will be one person has to be 30 years old, 5 years of marriage at least,
and you are allowed to have biological children. Some of the people
who have been waiting for dispensation currently have been on the
President's desk for a whole year...others less, others more. Doing
away with this step will quicken the pace of adoptions across Haiti by a
HUGE margin. Lowering these requirements will also allow SO MANY MORE
families to adopt the beautiful children of Haiti into loving homes. I
can not say enough how grateful I am to be a witness to this change in
the system. God is on the move, friends, and I believe my sense of
urgency to pray for the world of adoptions in Haiti was miraculously
answered! God is doing amazing things around the world if we open our
eyes and hearts towards them and cover them in prayer. Thank you, thank
you, thank you for praying! God is hearing your prayers and breaking
down literally a decade and more of strongholds. Children are being
given a better chance at their dreams of a family. It doesn't get much
better than that. Praise the Lord, oh my soul, praise the Lord! Please
keep praying! The new laws have to still be signed by the President
and printed in a public governmental newspaper/journal to take affect.
Also, we personally are still needing prayer for Nora's papers to get
out of MOI. We are coming up on week 18 this Friday of being stuck in
this department and are beyond ready to exit and move on to passports.
We want our baby girl HOME! Thank you everyone!!!

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